September 18, 2009 – NEW Stamping Studio

I'm FINALLY settled into my NEW Stamping Studio!!!

As you may know from past posts, our basement flooded… sewer water… the day after we brought Landon home from the hospital… among the many other things that went wrong with our home that week!

It's been a long road, but the basement is finally finished! Well… except for the bathroom…. but that requires re-paining and everything… hopefully in the next few weeks that will be done as well.

It's SO NICE to finally be able to go down and design again. It's been entirely too long!

The entire basement was my Stamping Studio before the flood… but as we started working through the plan to re-do it, we decided that my studio would be in just half of the basement now, and that the other half would be a family room/play room for Landon. Or living room is quite small, and there's just not nearly enough room for his toys — they were taking over!

We also found that I was having to choose between stamping and spending time with my boys — and let's face it, I don't want to have to decide! Because of course I'm always going to choose my family which means I would never stamp… and it's kinda my job, something I need to do! Plus it's something I really enjoy.

SO, the New Stamping Studio is also the Family Room, but here it is!!!

Here's the basement after the flood but before we fixed it up (before the flood there was wall to wall carpeting that had to get ripped out):

Now here's the "NEW":

To the left is his play area and to the right is my stamping space, then there's a futon against the stairs coming down.

This is the "Family Room" side (I forgot to take my old punch rack down from the door before I took the photo — my studio used to take up the whole room, and the new one doesn't use it, I sold it to one of my downline).

There's also a wire card rack mounted to the wall at the bottom of the stairs:

Don't look too closely at the built in shelving, this was right before a class and I had just set a bunch of things down on it! To the right is my Pier One Shelf that was in our kitchen at our old house, all of my accessories and odds and ends are on that shelf:

I use Stampin' Up!'s Ribbon Holders for all of my ribbon. But I've outgrown them… I have 4 more Medium sized ones on order, they should be delivered in a few days!

The baskets below it hold extras of ribbon (so I only keep 1 open roll out at a time) in one, Ribbon Originals, Hemp, Linen Thread and Twill Tape in another, Odds & Ends Tools in another, and Wheel Handles and Empty Wheel Cartridges (uninked) in the last:

This shelf is my "color" shelf — my Stampin' Write Markers, Stampin' Spots, Sponges and Inked Cartridges are all here. I keep a sponge for each ink color on a clothespin and used the color name labels on each clothespin. Then I took the divider stamp cases with 6 rows in them and put 2 colors in each rows. This keeps 1 case per color family, and I put the color family label on the front of the cases.

I used the same divider cases for the Jumbo & Standard Wheel Cartridges — 1 case per color family, and then one of my color families needed 2 cases.

These cases are available to Demonstrators as a Supply Item.

All of my little accessory items are on Stack & Store Caddies. If the item doesn't come in these containers, I use the empty Containers sold to hold them in. So for example, all of my pretties pieces are divided out and on the caddy (besides the hatpins and flowers, those are in jars). I outgrew these as well, another is on the way for the ones stacked in the back!

The tan baskets hold the following…. 1) Extra Rubber mount pieces 2) Crafter's Tool Kit and other Tools 3) Cello Bags

The blue baskets hold…. 1) RubOns 2) Envelopes and 3) Technique "Stuff" (Spritzers, Oxi Clean, Masking Tape, Packing Tape, etc.)

This is a handy little basket with 2 dividers, I put my paper cutters on one half and my cutting aids (Circle Scissors Plus parts, Tearing Edge, etc.) in the other. Then I just slide my Grid Paper next to the basket:

These are Ikea Rails and Baskets that I've had sitting waiting to get put up for quite some time now! Thanks to my Dad for getting them up for me (after he helped Brad put all of the molding up around the floor! The floor that my brother helped Brad lay down! Ahhhh family!)So I think these things are pretty self explanatory because you can see them all… mainly Embossing stuff, glitter, adhesive, scissors…

The other set of bars are used for all of my punches…

All of my stamp sets are on a white bookshelf:

All of my 8 1/2 x 11 Cardstock is on Office Paper Organizers set on a White Bookshelf:

For now, all of my dies and Big Shot Machine are on the shelves above the cardstock… I'm hoping for a better storage solution for these soon!

All of my 12×12 Cardstock, DSP, Chipboard, Sticky Sheets, etc. are in 12×12 Storage Cubbies stacked together to create a tower:

Next to all of my cardstock is a little cart with file folders for all of my scraps.

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